Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.